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Activity began about 1:30 on Boston Common. A core group of roughly 100, many of whom continue to camp at Dewey Square in a growing tent city there, gathered at the Gazebo at the common's center. An hour later, the crowd more than quadrupled, as factions from Harvard Square, Tufts University, and other institutions streamed onto the sunlit green space.